Statically-linked application doesn't show any text
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I have a Qt widgets application that runs perfectly when run with the installed Qt (5.12.4). I followed the instructions to make it a statically-linked application so I can deploy it to another computer. When I first ran it, I didn't see any text in the appliaction and I saw errors in the logs about fonts not being available. I installed the dejavu fonts to ~/Qt-5124/lib/fonts. Now, I don't get any errors in the logs, but I still don't see the text. I'm wondering if it's a font issue. The font that is being uses is "Ubuntu." I believe that is a system font. Should the application be able to display system fonts?
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Hi,
Check with QFontDatabase what font you have access to and if the one you want to use loads properly.
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Hi,
Check with QFontDatabase what font you have access to and if the one you want to use loads properly.
@SGaist I addded a function at the beginning to "qDebug()" the list of fonts from QFontDatabase.
When I run interactively with plugin support, I see that I have access to a whole bunch of fonts. When I run as a statically-linked application, I see that I have zero fonts available.
I looked at the config.summary of my static build of Qt. It showed that fontconfig was not enabled. I thought I'd try to enable it by adding a switch to the configure command, "-fontconfig." But I received additional errors:
../Qt/5.12.4/Src/configure -static -prefix ~/qt-5124 -system-xcb -recheck-all -system-fontconfig
ERROR: Feature 'fontconfig' was enabled, but the pre-condition '!config.msvc && features.system-freetype && libs.fontconfig' failed.
I'm running on an ubuntu VM.
Do you know how to enable system fonts in the static build?
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Add the fontconfig development package to your system.
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@SGaist I tried apt-get install fontconfig-dev and received an error that the package doesn't exist. I tried apt-cache search fontconfig. I didn't see anything like a development package for fontconfig. Do you know how to install it?
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What about
libfontconfig1-dev? -
@SGaist said in Statically-linked application doesn't show any text:
libfontconfig1-dev
That looks like the solution. Thank you.
